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Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook

By : Pete Wang
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Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook

By: Pete Wang

Overview of this book

An integral component of Oracle SOA and BPM Suite, Oracle BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) ultimately empowers business executives to react quickly to changing business situations. BAM enables business service and process monitoring through real-time data streaming and operational reports, and this book helps you to take advantage of this vital tool with best practice guidance for building a BAM project."Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook" is an essential companion for advancing your BAM knowledge, with troubleshooting and performance tuning tips to guide you in building BAM applications. The book uses step-by-step instructions alongside a real world demo project to steer you through the pitfalls of report and application development. Packed with best practices, you'll learn about BAM migration, HA configuration and much more."Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook" comprises a myriad of best practices for building real-time operational dashboards, reports and alerts. The book dives straight into the architecture of Oracle BAM 11g, before moving swiftly onto concepts like managing BAM server securities, populating Data Objects and performing load testing. Later on you'll also learn about BAM migration and building an ADF-based report, plus much more that you won't want to miss. For focusing in on best practices for this integral tool within Oracle SOA and BPM Suite, "Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook" is the perfect guide for the job.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Designing your first Data Objects


As you saw in the BAM key concepts section, in the previous chapter, BAM Data Objects represent data models, which are used to create reports in Oracle BAM Active Studio. Each Data Object has a specific layout that can be a combination of data fields, lookup fields, and calculated fields.

In this section, you will learn how to design your first Data Objects. First, let's get started with the BAM Architect web application.

Getting started with the BAM Architect web application

The BAM Architect Web application is a GUI tool for managing Data Objects, enterprise messaging sources, external data sources, and alerts. To open the architect web application, you need to perform the following steps:

  1. 1. In an IE browser, enter the BAM start page URL, which is http://<hostname>:<port>/OracleBAM. The URL is case sensitive.

    If this is the first time that you are accessing the start page, it will redirect you to the login page.

  2. 2. Enter the correct username...